To amortize a loan, use the table above as an example: 1  Note your starting loan balance: $20,000. 2  Figure out the payment (calculation shown on this page): $377.42. 3  Figure out the interest charge for each period â usually monthly (calculation shown on this page): $83.33 in the first month.
$104.3 million less in dividend payments after buying back shares. Apple now has 861.74 million shares outstanding, a significant drop from just one quarter ago when it had 892.55 million outstanding shares. The company's stock buyback program acquired 31.7 million shares in the March quarter, and will retire them.
After spending $44 billion on stock buybacks over the past four quarters, Apple's stock has risen 29.2 percent or $129.28, a contribution that moved the company's market cap from $392 billion a year ago to $492 billion today, even as the company removed 80 million shares from circulation.